Share With the Class....

So just a brief, little progress report.  I successfully switched out Noodle's ugly Hollister contraption on Sunday all BY MYSELF.  He was a perfect little gentleman and stayed relatively cooperative (ergo he didn't roll over onto his belly during the process!). His hole had closed up beautifully and the skin area around the tube has healed nicely.  I thought we weren't going to be friends again after I ripped the duoderm (a wound dressing that adhered to the skin) pad off his torso.  There really weren't any other options since soaking didn't help and considering I'm the only Mommy he's got.  I replaced it with the new version Mickey button and it has mostly worked out fine. We're still friends.

We had PT, OT and Feeding therapy today.  He totally had a ball at all of them. Below is a video of feeding with Jeni.  He was diggin' on a crumbled up fig newton! So was Tango, incidentally. At one point, LJ even brought the wooden spoon dipped in fig crumbs up to his mouth.  His gag reflex never kicked in.  Total awesomeness!  LJ's food picnic group, Hungry Hippos, resumed last week.  He quickly made a new, curly-headed friend, Oscar.  It was the perfect arrangement- Oscar loved, LOVED loved him some veggie straws so LJ pawned them off on him.  And what Oscar didn't like, Noodles surprisingly did. Such as wet, cold apple slices. Who knew? Mostly he just gummed them.

Stir It Up from Jenn S on Vimeo.

Below is also a snapshot of Cathy working her magic with him at Children's. He worked his tooshie off, but also seemed to be having fun.  The gait trainer she had him working in today is called an Up and Go.  It was a lot more challenging for him than his Pony because it requires him to get his "nose over his toes".  Whenever his center of gravity shifted, the gait trainer would shift his trunk support proportionately.  He dropped to the floor a couple of times to a seated position. He'll get the hang of it after a few more sessions.

Needless to say, he didn't complain about naptime as soon as we got home!!  Me either.  Nate's another story all together....

We're off to school tomorrow and then music therapy.  Fun times, fun times- of course that means that there are so many things it's hard to keep up with it all!!!